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My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking? 10.2 with X86-64, 2048Mb Cheers, Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 6/4/07, primm
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
10.2 with X86-64, 2048Mb
Cheers, Steve.
It have to be set in your BIOS. Check there. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary system RAM, though they do take up address space. This is in contrast to some mainboard video hardware, which uses system RAM as its framebuffer and primitive storage. Depending on the CPU and mainboard you use, the presence of video RAM in the system's physical address space may or may not limit the amount of primary RAM you can actually access. In particular, without a CPU and mainboard capable of supporting PAE (physical address extension), the need to bring the video (and possibly other PCI card) RAM into the 32-bit physical address space may limit usable primary RAM to 3 or 3.5 GB.
10.2 with X86-64, 2048Mb
With a 64-bit processor, the video RAM does not limit the amount of primary RAM you can access.
Cheers, Steve.
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On Monday 04 June 2007 18:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary system RAM, though they do take up address space.
Hi. I don't have a video board. Is there separate RAM on the motherboard only for the video? Cheers, Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 04 June 2007 10:12, primm wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 18:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary system RAM, though they do take up address space.
Hi. I don't have a video board. Is there separate RAM on the motherboard only for the video?
I don't understand. You don't have a video card buy you have a Geforce 6100? Is that integrated into the mainboard? If so, then those 384 MB may be taken from the primary RAM, but they could also be apart from it, as if there were a discrete video board. Or are you asking about the "up to" part? In that case, I don't know how to answer your question, except: Give more information about your hardware! In general / when in doubt, supply us with more information so we don't have to guess what's going on. A quick Google search led me to a review of one mainboard with integrated Geforce 6100 that stated that 128 MB of primary RAM were used for video purposes. In all likelihood, the answer to your question lies in the manuals or other materials that came with the board.
Cheers, Steve.
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On Monday 04 June 2007 19:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 10:12, primm wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 18:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary system RAM, though they do take up address space.
Hi. I don't have a video board. Is there separate RAM on the motherboard only for the video?
I don't understand. You don't have a video card buy you have a Geforce 6100? Is that integrated into the mainboard? If so, then those 384 MB may be taken from the primary RAM, but they could also be apart from it, as if there were a discrete video board.
Or are you asking about the "up to" part? In that case, I don't know how to answer your question, except:
Give more information about your hardware!
In general / when in doubt, supply us with more information so we don't have to guess what's going on.
A quick Google search led me to a review of one mainboard with integrated Geforce 6100 that stated that 128 MB of primary RAM were used for video purposes.
In all likelihood, the answer to your question lies in the manuals or other materials that came with the board.
Cheers, Steve.
Randall Schulz
I suppose it must be integrated as I only have one board. The motherboard. It is indeed the 'up to' part that gets me despite having rtfm's to death! Oh, and there seems nowhere to change the value in BIOS. I suspect that it is grabbing the memory from the main memory. I just thought I may be able to get a bit more performance by adjusting the memory it took that's all. Will just live with it. Thanks for your help. Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 04 June 2007 10:51, primm wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 19:28, Randall R Schulz wrote: ...
I suppose it must be integrated as I only have one board. The motherboard. It is indeed the 'up to' part that gets me despite having rtfm's to death! Oh, and there seems nowhere to change the value in BIOS. I suspect that it is grabbing the memory from the main memory. I just thought I may be able to get a bit more performance by adjusting the memory it took that's all. Will just live with it. Thanks for your help.
Well, just for kicks, could you let us know a make and model number for the board? You've got me curious and I'd kind of like to know what mainboard manufacturers are up to, these days.
Steve.
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Well, just for kicks, could you let us know a make and model number for the board?
You've got me curious and I'd kind of like to know what mainboard manufacturers are up to, these days.
Yeah. No problem It says Biostar M7 on a piece of tape covering up some Chinese looking characters. hth Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 04 June 2007 14:44, primm wrote:
Well, just for kicks, could you let us know a make and model number for the board?
You've got me curious and I'd kind of like to know what mainboard manufacturers are up to, these days.
Yeah. No problem
It says Biostar M7 on a piece of tape covering up some Chinese looking characters.
What did you do, buy it off the back of a truck?? Anyway, I cannot find a Biostar M7 model with Geforce 6100 video that supports an Intel processor. The closest product page I can find on Biostar's Web site is this: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=geforce+6100-m7 I looked at the PDF manual and I have to say, it's pretty sparse on technical details and does not cover BIOS functions at all. It does have several pages describing the Windows-based configuration utilities... I'd recommend that you methodically peruse all the BIOS configuration and information displays looking for anything pertaining to video RAM allocation. I'd guess there's something in there that allows you to configure how much RAM is made available to the video hardware.
hth Steve.
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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 00:14, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 14:44, primm wrote:
Well, just for kicks, could you let us know a make and model number for the board?
You've got me curious and I'd kind of like to know what mainboard manufacturers are up to, these days.
Yeah. No problem
It says Biostar M7 on a piece of tape covering up some Chinese looking characters.
What did you do, buy it off the back of a truck??
Yes.
Anyway, I cannot find a Biostar M7 model with Geforce 6100 video that supports an Intel processor. The closest product page I can find on Biostar's Web site is this: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=geforce+6100-m7
It came with an AMD processor. Cheers, Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 01:53, primm wrote:
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Anyway, I cannot find a Biostar M7 model with Geforce 6100 video that supports an Intel processor. The closest product page I can find on Biostar's Web site is this: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=geforce+6100-m7
It came with an AMD processor.
Ah. I misinterpreted "X86-64" as Intel. So that _is_ the link for your board? Have you found any BIOS settings or information displays that relate to video RAM allocation?
Cheers, Steve.
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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 01:53, primm wrote:
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Anyway, I cannot find a Biostar M7 model with Geforce 6100 video that supports an Intel processor. The closest product page I can find on Biostar's Web site is this: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=geforce+6100-m7
It came with an AMD processor.
Ah. I misinterpreted "X86-64" as Intel. So that _is_ the link for your board?
Have you found any BIOS settings or information displays that relate to video RAM allocation?
Cheers, Steve.
Randall Schulz Yes. In the bios. It says framebuffer. It can be up to 128Mb. But I don't
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 15:25, Randall R Schulz wrote: think that's it. As everything is working fine then let's give up! Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary system RAM, though they do take up address space. This is in contrast to some mainboard video hardware, which uses system RAM as its framebuffer and primitive storage.
Depending on the CPU and mainboard you use, the presence of video RAM in the system's physical address space may or may not limit the amount of primary RAM you can actually access. In particular, without a CPU and mainboard capable of supporting PAE (physical address extension), the need to bring the video (and possibly other PCI card) RAM into the 32-bit physical address space may limit usable primary RAM to 3 or 3.5 GB.
Nope, exactly the opposite, shared video memory means it allocates or reserve system memory (RAM) for the video card. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1399&p=2 http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_102-0.html?forumID=7&threadID=119317&messageID=1354197 To answer primm's questions: 1. Check the BIOS 2. Yes, it is RAM Regards Rudolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 08 June 2007 16:47, rudolf wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary system RAM, though they do take up address space. This is in contrast to some mainboard video hardware, which uses system RAM as its framebuffer and primitive storage.
Depending on the CPU and mainboard you use, the presence of video RAM in the system's physical address space may or may not limit the amount of primary RAM you can actually access. In particular, without a CPU and mainboard capable of supporting PAE (physical address extension), the need to bring the video (and possibly other PCI card) RAM into the 32-bit physical address space may limit usable primary RAM to 3 or 3.5 GB.
Nope, exactly the opposite, shared video memory means it allocates or reserve system memory (RAM) for the video card.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1399&p=2 http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_102-0.html?forumID=7&threadID=119317&mess ageID=1354197
To answer primm's questions:
1. Check the BIOS 2. Yes, it is RAM
Regards
Rudolf
Thanks Rudolf. Nice articles. I still can't see anything in my bios apart from the framebuffer size which ranges from 32Mb to 128Mb. Could that be the shared memory bit? Cheers, Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
primm wrote:
I still can't see anything in my bios apart from the framebuffer size which ranges from 32Mb to 128Mb. Could that be the shared memory bit?
It is indeed. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 09 June 2007 19:25, primm wrote:
On Friday 08 June 2007 16:47, rudolf wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
Cheers, Steve.
There's a utility called nvclock on the 10.2 DVD which gives the info. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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